Exploited - Let's Start a War...Said Maggie One Day

honestly, this album is very boring compared to horror epics, punks not dead, etc

i tried and tried to give this album a fair chance, but it just didnt grow any better...it just blended into one monotonous blur to me...i mean punks not dead is amazing...horror epics is greater harder oi punk...troops of tomorrow is almost as good as punks not dead. this one is just....pass...i mean yes, the song "safe below" is amazing...so is track 2...but the rest is trite and done much better by other bands and even Exploited themselves....but i do have to recommend this over "the massacre" and "f--k the system" those two are just plain washed up and bleh. September 24, 2006

Punk as $%&@!

the birth of hardcore punkrock. inspiring the bad brains, cro-mags, sick of it alll.... everyone. April 16, 2006

Amazing

If you are trying to get into the exploited, this is probely the one. It is before they went to thrash, but late enough so that the band has devoloped themselves enough. The Exploited were the first true street punk band. They were exactly what punk needed. Back in the late seventees and early eighties punk was on a decline. Crass had already declared punk dead, the clash was relesing reggae tunes and Devo and Elvis Costello were being considered punk. The Exploited come saying punk is NOT dead and realese a fury like no one had experianced before. I mean these were the days which the craziest thing on the scene was the Sex Pistols. I love the Sex Pistols, they are one of the greatest punk bands ever, but the exploited had a heavier sound that delivered a barrage of power punk like nothing before it, and the Sex Pistols had a seventies sound . The seventies sound was usually a snotty voice with three power chord songs. The Exploited brought on the new age of punk. They gave the go ahead for bands to scream and play fast and be agressive. I'm not going to say that the Exploited founded the eighties scene, they obviously didn't, black flag had been around since 77, but there sound was powerful and showed what punk could be, and definatly helped bring on the eighties scene. Every Street punk band of today (unseen, casualties, virus, cheap sex, krays, blanks 77, devotchkas, lower class brats) basically recreated the exploited's sound in there own way. They may not be the fathers of punk but no question they are the fathers of street punk. September 2, 2005

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